--- title: The next morning the Bear took the boy out on the prairie and showed… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: The next morning the Bear took the boy out on the prairie and showed him the different roots and leaves of medicines, and told him how to use them; how he should eat some medicine and then he could cure the wounded by just breathing on the wound. Who acts: Bear, medicine. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, medicine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:10:107 # text = The next morning the Bear took the boy out on the prairie and showed him the different roots and leaves of medicines, and told him how to use them; how he should eat some medicine and then he could cure the wounded by just breathing on the wound. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bear Bear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wounded wound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 xcomp _ _ 45 by by SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 46 just just ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 advcl _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take out** | past | the Bear | the boy | | the prairie | morning | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | | 2 | **show** | past | the Bear *not said here* | the different roots and leaves of medicines | boy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient root=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Bear *not said here* | | medicine | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Bear *not said here* | roots *= root* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | should | medicine | some medicine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient | | 6 | **cure** | could | medicine | | | | then | | tree rules | | 7 | **wound** | participle | medicine *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **breathe** | gerund | medicine *not said here* | | | the wound | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wound=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/106/) - next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/108/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)